Comment by dash2
1 day ago
I don’t understand why gerrymandering would require privacy violation, or how differential privacy would stop it.
1 day ago
I don’t understand why gerrymandering would require privacy violation, or how differential privacy would stop it.
Gerrymandering is most effective when you know exact voting patterns of each household so you can draw the lines to get the result you want. Differential privacy blurs those boundaries and provides more room for the partisan hacks to make a fatal mistake.
Sounds very unlikely in practice. Any evidence anyone actually tried to deanonymize this data for this purpose?
This is nowhere near household level but is it good enough for horseshoes or hand grenades? I did this almost 20 years ago. I could combine this with aerial and streetview, ALPRs, DMV data, smartphone telemetry...
http://athena.m3047.net/elections/36th-dist-colored.html
http://athena.m3047.net/elections/dist-not-normal/distributi...